110+ Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes On Friendship, Charismatic And Versatile

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his roles in films such as Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and The Dark Knight Rises. He has also starred in television shows such as 3rd Rock from the Sun and has directed and produced several films. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt on life, love, friendship.

Top 10 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

1. It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.
2. Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.
3. I lost you when you left me to find yourself.
4. This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.
5. I just need some time away to remember why I stay.
6. Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.
7. Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.
8. Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.
9. The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
10. I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Short Quotes

• The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.
• Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.
• When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.
• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness
• I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.
• I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.
• eating is the sleeping of being awake.
• Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.
• I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.
• I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes About Life

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Movies are different from real life. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes About Love

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

He loved me. He loves me not. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes About Actors

I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Famous Quotes And Sayings

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The important thing is to find what's unique about yourself, find what's unique about someone else. And embrace everything in the moment, as opposed to constantly comparing yourself and your lover and your relationship to a static set of expectations. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker? — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We can be anybody we wanna be. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me! — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects... — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only I was like you in that movie," or "If only I could be with someone like you in that movie." And, you know, it's very flattering to hear that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Life Lessons by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

1. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has shown that hard work and dedication can pay off, as he has achieved success in both his acting and directing career.
2. He has also demonstrated that it is possible to take risks and be creative in order to stand out from the crowd.
3. Lastly, he has proven that it is possible to have a successful career while also staying true to yourself and your values.